We represent clients engaged in every sector of the energy business, including:
- exploration and production companies,
- natural gas and oil pipelines, storage developers and providers and processors,
- energy marketers and electrical power generators,
- drilling and oilfield service contractors,
- commodity traders and energy finance providers.
Our lawyers are actively involved in all levels of oil and gas development throughout Ukraine including permitting, exploration and production, major gas plants, pipelines, and refineries.
Industry-specific services:
Advising banks on financing pipeline leases, offshore production platforms, and oil and gas properties.
Assisting industry borrowers with sophisticated financing arrangements, including:
- Project financing for natural gas storage facilities
- Credit facilities for exploration, production, and oilfield equipment manufacturing companies
- Acquiring and disposing producing and non-producing properties,
- Structuring the full range of production agreements (farmout, exploration, master service, joint ventures, gas sales and purchase
- Facilitating transportation, gathering and processing arrangement
- Oil, gas and mineral leases
- Seismic licensing, data acquisition and use agreements
- Preparation of joint development contracting: farm-outs, unit agreements, operating agreements, and disputes arising out of these arrangements.
- Complex transaction structuring
- Acquisitions and divestitures of pipeline and gathering systems
- Preparation of transportation and storage contracts for crude oil, natural gas and liquids
- Drilling and oilfieldcontracts and master service agreements
- Joint ventures and other project-specific business entities
- Risk allocation and indemnity disputes
- Natural gas marketing contracts
- Acquisition and divestiture of processing, treating and mid-stream transportation facilities
- Drafting of gas processing, purchase and sale agreements,
- Development or acquisition of natural gas storage facilities
- Structuring and financing distributive power generator projects and renewable energy developments
- Power purchase arrangements and power purchase agreements
- Fuel supply contracts
- Engineering and construction arrangements
- Public and private offerings of equity and debt securities
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Venture capital financing
- Recapitalizations
- Private placements and venture capital transactions
- Preferential rights to purchase
- Royalty and pricing issues
- Take or pay, title, leasehold and land disputes, including subsurface damages, tort and insurance defence arising from oil and gas operations
- Environmental matters in connection with oil and gas operations
